Stop the Heritage Drain
Against the black market of antiquity and the destruction of cultural heritage.
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Ancient egyptian mummy’s skull and dismembered hands to be returned to Egypt 90 years after being taken to the U.S.
The long-lost remains of an Egyptian mummy, stolen from a tomb and smuggled to the United States, is to be returned…
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Turkey seizes largest ever haul of ancient statues and coins
Turkish police said on Thursday they had rescued thousands of artefacts dating back to Anatolian, Greek and Egyptian civilizations in…
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Manhattan DA Returns 3 Ancient Sculptures To Lebanon
Three ancient sculptures are being returned to their rightful owners in Lebanon as the Manhattan district attorney forms a new…
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Peru: Sweden returns 79 Paracas textiles
Peru’s Culture Ministry has received fifty sets comprising 79 pre-Inca Paracas culture textiles recently repatriated from Sweden, the institution reported.…
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Hurghada airport officials foil attempt to smuggle 18th-century Coptic icon
Antiquities officials at Hurghada International Airport foiled an attempt on Monday to smuggle an antique Coptic icon out of Egypt.…
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Artifact From Caligula’s Ship Found to Be a Coffee Table in New York Apartment
The Roman Emperor Caligula is renowned for his sadistic, debauched rule of ancient Rome that led to his assassination after…
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No unauthorised Egyptian artefacts at Louvre Abu Dhabi: Cairo
The Egyptian cabinet’s Information and Decision Support Center has denied media reports that Egyptian pharaonic antiquities have been sold or…
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Greek MEP Links the Return of the Parthenon Marbles to Brexit Negotiations
“The Parthenon Marbles are considered as the greatest symbol of European culture. Therefore, reuniting the marbles would be both a…
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Egypt returns stolen currency artefacts to Iraq, China
Egypt’s Minister of Antiquities, Khaled El-Enany, handed over a collection of authentic coins, currencies, and bonds to Iraqi Ambassador Habib…
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Fossil footprints of early human ancestor stolen from archaeological site in Kasteli, Crete
Ten of some 40 footprints on the Kasteli site have been cut away and removed from the rock, where they…
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